{"id":178,"date":"2007-11-23T08:06:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/general\/my-steady-start-to-the-bankroll-challenge.html"},"modified":"2019-11-01T11:21:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T11:21:55","slug":"my-steady-start-to-the-bankroll-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.partypoker.com\/blog\/en\/my-steady-start-to-the-bankroll-challenge.html","title":{"rendered":"My steady start to the Bankroll Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

by James “HullJimi” Greenwood <\/strong><\/p>\n

Starting Roll: $25<\/p>\n

Current Roll: $30.47<\/font><\/p>\n

It\u2019s been an eye opening first week!<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been playing 2c\/4c no limit cash, with a $2 buy-in and the standard of play is a bit unusual to say the least! Ten x big blind raises are par for the course, with four x big blind raises getting virtually a table full of callers.<\/p>\n

Starting my first week of the PartyPoker Bankroll Challenge with just $25, I decided to opt for an ultra tight style of play. I couldn\u2019t afford to gamble, so I\u2019ve been pretty easy to read up to now, I suspect. However, any picture card is played hard at this level and Ace-rag is being treated like a set!<\/p>\n

Here’s one of the early hands I played:<\/p>\n

I get dealt J-J in the small blind, there are four limpers so I raise to 24c – and get one re-raiser from early position. Now in \u201cnormal\u201d games, this is pretty transparent \u2013 it has to be A-A or K-K, doesn\u2019t it? I decide to flat call his re-raise, knowing that under normal circumstances my Jacks are going in the muck, but also knowing that at this level he could have anything. Anyway, another Jack comes on the flop, I double up and he indeed shows A-A. Maybe there are some good players at this level after all \u2013 I clearly got lucky!<\/p>\n

After around 300 hands I get my first pair of aces and they hold. Next hand I get A-K, and with a K-high flop, it holds. I then get my second pair of aces (thanks PartyPoker!), but they get crushed by a set of 3s.<\/p>\n

So in short, it\u2019s tough. Tougher than I imagined and I wish I was playing full stacks so my big hands get paid off properly. I also want to up the number of hands I\u2019ve played as work has gotten in the way this week.<\/p>\n

But I\u2019m still here. And the next seven days are going to be good for me I\u2019m sure\u2026.<\/p>\n

Hands Played: 512<\/p>\n

Current Bankroll: $30.47<\/p>\n

Profit: $5.47c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by James “HullJimi” Greenwood Starting Roll: $25 Current Roll: $30.47 It\u2019s been an eye opening first week! I\u2019ve been playing 2c\/4c no limit cash, with a $2 buy-in and the standard of play is a bit unusual to say the least! Ten x big blind raises are par for the course, with four x big<\/p>\n

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